ThanksGiving and Black Friday

I'm not a person that usually celebrates thanksgiving as a family. I hop around to different events people host because of the food they have prepared. I think thanks giving a a big part of the American way of life, it is a holiday where family and friends gather around to celebrate and give thanks to all the opportunities and things they have been set in front of them. They usually give thanks to the food they have, the friends they have, and there family. Although people don't exactly realize that Thanksgiving was set on a day where the Indians were killed by the Pilgrims. Why is it that we celebrate thanks on a day where there was a genocide? I think thanksgiving was not originally set to give thanks for the pilgrims killing the Indians. When I asked my boyfriend why people still celebrate thanksgiving when it was a day where many Indians where massacred, he answered in a joking manner "we are celebrating because of that reason". I think thanksgiving is just an excuse for people to have a party, eat, and get fat. Not to mention the excuse to have a ridiculous amount of sales the day after the holiday. This year, i celebrating thanks giving with my boyfriend and his large Hispanic family. It was quite interesting to me how many people with different ethnic backgrounds still celebrate thanksgiving. Whether it is black, Asian, Hispanic, or white, all of them celebrate thanksgiving even if they are not even born United States Citizens. Which brings back my idea that people don't see it as "Thanks for killing the Indians" day but see it more as a "Excuse to have a party and thank everything" day. Not forgetting about black Friday which is the single most manipulative way companies can get people to spent money on a ridiculous amount of junk. Although it is sad how people are sucked into it so much, I myself must admit it works. On black Friday I didn't wake up early in the morning to go shopping like most people do. Around the evening I got bored so I took a walk with my friend around 86 Street to see what kind of "amazing" sale that stores were having. I stepped into a Victoria
Secret and saw that they were selling bras for 34 dollars rather then there super expensive prices of around 50 dollars. I noticed that they also put up an add saying that if u spent more then 60 dollars you get a free Victoria Secrete bag with a whole bunch of goodies inside. Since i was broke i was not able to buy anything but my friend bought 63 dollars worth of underwear (which I'm not sure why anyone would spent so much on underwear) which means she was able to get the free goody bag. This amused me because the free gift was basically a crappy bag with what looks like a whole bunch of left over sample gifts of lotions, perfumes, etc. It never yet amazes me how everyone can get so hyped up over "free" things or things that my be cheaper then its original price. It made it even more ironic when I heard on the next day that a worker from Walmart died from being trampled by the mop of customers hungry for sales. It made me think the people were like zombies to have trampled a 6 foot 5 man without even noticing. It makes it really sad how society can be sucked in by companies and luxury items.